A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

Doing one thing right every few years doesn’t absolve the Roberts court. Especially after Dobbs and immunity.

Happy birthday to this young man, and really to us all

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some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

This Beagle’s dramatic 'play dead' on command is the funniest thing I’ve seen today

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

So good

Swalwell: ICE agents shot Alex Pretti and Renee Good. And the only person in the world who has been held accountable by DHS is the pilot who somehow forgot to move Kristi Noem’s blankie.

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

The so-called Save America Act will force 21 million American citizens to produce passports or birth certificates just to register to vote. Most do not have them ready. Turning paperwork into a barrier is a poll tax by another name. #HandsOffHerVote social.demcast.com/s/L9X3k1fQ

Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3

Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power. They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.

This woman has shown more courage than the nominal leaders of the Democratic Party.

One armed goon loses his shit at an observer who's backing up, and then several more armed goons tackle the observer to the ground, and then even more armed goons form a protective shield around the armed goons handcuffing the observer for hurting an armed goon's feelings. This can't be "reformed"

There’s no “reform” for ICE. Abolish and prosecute.

Abolish. ice. 💔

It doesn't matter what the Constitution says. If the government can execute you on the street or in your own home on a whim, you have no rights. None.

So simple. And yet, so... damn... right.

If you’re defending kidnapping a five year old, you’re losing

The money that used to help Americans get healthcare is now being used to sponsor state terrorism. You can’t afford to see a doctor but the guy with no diploma and no skills is getting paid that money to intimidate and harm citizens.

"Drink whole milk, you'll come in 5th place" is an incredible ad campaign.

The Democratic leaders in Congress have repeatedly shown that they have no interest in leading an effective opposition. They have no appetite for the legislative trench warfare this moment requires. They don't even have the will to speak about it clearly. They just want to be left alone.

We have to get rid of Jeffries and Schumer. We have to. It’s unendurable that these men are the most prominent Democrats of the moment. They are two of the most broadly undistinguished men I could imagine in politics, zero fire, zero fight, zero zeal, machine politicians with sinecures.

seen at 38th & Hiawatha this morning

The Folgers Incest Siblings will return in "Avengers: Doomsday."

If you need to hear one meaningful thing from Davos, this is definitely what that historian has to say. No more philanthropy, just tax the rich.

OMG! I just got internal bleeding from pretending to be hit by a car.

Sometimes guys sell Super Bowl rings. Doesn’t make whoever buys it a Super Bowl winner.

Remember: Anne Frank was a German, born to German parents, in Germany, and then her government decided she wasn’t German enough. That’s what is happening here in America right now.

Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen: "If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU." "Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.

Oh, I definitely will remember…

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Make it viral.

Benjamin Slyngstad (@slyngstad.bsky.social) with *the* commentary on the day.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Her vehicle's right front panel cleared the ICE agent who didn't open fire until after he was at the side of her vehicle. He used deadly force on a fleeing individual, which is against DHS policy. This is murder. He needs to be arrested.

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

Are you worried things can’t get stupider? I assure you they can and will

It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.

Overall, a great Christmas Eve at the restaurant aside from this one burn—which are always better than negative guest interactions. I still smiled while presenting the 600°F searing stone that had settled against my hand. . #oops #fohfail

After Jake Paul and Andrew Tate, I wonder what someone's third wish was?

Winter Solstice. Photograph by Bill Brandt.

Now would be a great time for a 10 episode, 20 hour prestige series about the ten years between 1916 and 1926, covering the establishment of the 8-hr work day & 5-day work week, in the US. Each episode would be one year & the middle episode should be entirely devoted to the Battle of Blair Mountain.